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Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher began his career writing for the Digital Media Online community of sites, including Digital Producer and Creative Mac covering all aspects of the digital content creation industry. He then moved on to consumer technology, and began the Coolness Roundup podcast. A writing fool, Stephen has freelanced for Sci-Fi Channel's Technology Blog, and Gizmodo. Still longing for the good ol' days, Stephen launched Major Spoilers in July 2006, because he is a glutton for punishment.

You can follow him on Twitter @MajorSpoilers and tell him your darkest secrets...

But if I can level with you folks, the pokemon theme song is one of the coolest theme songs in the history of Saturday Mornings. It’s epic, self-indulgent, and manages to cram the entire shows plot in about a minute and a half (Gotta. catch em ALL!).

This the awesome and extended version too, So we get to hear a whole extra verse! Okay so it sounds like it was written on the spot in the recording studio. Lines like “Every Challenge across the way/with courage I will face” sounds like a something a Disney Star would come up with. But I can forgive that because it leads into that guitar solo and keyboard solo that just KILLS. What’s more, this was written in the late 90’s, so it was a pretty ballsy move to try and channel the spirits of Twisted Sister AND Prince.